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From: "LpSolit at netscape dot net" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: overseers@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug web/72856] Trottle bug creation for newly created accounts (to limit spam)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-72856-5127-4hbQjcO3bW@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-72856-5127@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72856

--- Comment #5 from Frédéric Buclin <LpSolit at netscape dot net> ---
(In reply to Gerald Pfeifer from comment #2)
> As for rate throttling, how about only allowing for a single bug 
> report per day until a bug report has been "processed"

Isn't one bug per day a bit rude for legit users? I would be tempted to say
that above 2 or 3 new bug reports, it's reasonable to question if the user is
trying to spam Bugzilla or not. This is why I made the proposal in comment 0 to
use something exponential. This would give us something like:

3**n-1                         5**n
======                         ====
T0      : account created      T0      : account created
T0      : 1st bug created      T0+1min : 1st bug created
T0+2min : 2nd bug created      T0+6min : 2nd bug created
T0+10min: 3rd bug created      T0+31min: 3rd bug created
T0+36min: 4th bug created      T0+2.5h : 4th bug created
T0+2h   : 5th bug created      T0+13h  : 5th bug created
T0+6h   : 6th bug created      T0+65h  : 6th bug created
T0+18h  : 7th bug created      etc...
T0+55h  : 8th bug created
etc...

So a spammer could file at most 6-8 bugs in a week, but a legit user could
still easily file his first 2-3 bugs in a half hour. Of course, this rate limit
would only apply to users without editbugs privileges, so e.g. @gcc.gnu.org
accounts would not be affected.

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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-10  2:43 [Bug web/72856] New: " LpSolit at netscape dot net
2016-08-10  2:44 ` [Bug web/72856] " LpSolit at netscape dot net
2016-08-10  5:50 ` trippels at gcc dot gnu.org
2016-08-10  8:33 ` gerald at pfeifer dot com
2016-08-10 11:46 ` manu at gcc dot gnu.org
2016-08-10 12:04 ` LpSolit at netscape dot net
2016-08-10 12:33 ` LpSolit at netscape dot net [this message]
2016-08-10 12:41 ` fche at redhat dot com
2016-08-11 11:58 ` joseph at codesourcery dot com
2016-08-15 19:57 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org
2016-08-16 14:41 ` LpSolit at netscape dot net
2016-08-22 20:10 ` bernd.edlinger at hotmail dot de
2016-08-23  6:07 ` [Bug web/72856] Throttle " gerald at pfeifer dot com

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